France: 4 Said to Recruit for Syrian War

By SCOTT SAYARE

November 15, 2013

French authorities near Paris have arrested four men suspected of involvement in a network sending fighters to Syria to join radical Sunni Islamist groups operating there, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday. The domestic intelligence service said three of the men had fought in Syria alongside the Nusra Front, which has links to Al Qaeda, and returned to France, said Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office. The fourth man is believed to be the network’s organizer. All four were to be charged on Friday with conspiring to commit “terrorist acts,” Ms. Thibault-Lecuivre said. More than 100 French residents or citizens are fighting in Syria, French officials say.